brand new on PHP so advise me a good book to show me the way

[Marwan]

Hello.

please i need ur advice to tell me what is best php book that can show me the way in, coz i am brand new on php so please help.

thanks ALOT.

[ronverdonk]

Welcome to The Scripts!

There are numerous good books available. Before going into a shooping frenzy, maybe you should have a look at the following PHPm tutorials which are free.
After you have browsed these, you can probably make a better decision on what book you need.

http://www.allsyntax.com/tutorials/PHP/
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials.php
http://www.minitutorials.com/webdesi...trotophp_1.php
http://bmw.ws.utk.edu/nsu/php/
http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3288671
http://www.w3schools.com

When you insist on a book list, look at the following:

• "Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL and Web Development", E. Naramore e.a., Wrox Inc., ISBN 0-7645-7966-5
• "Learning PHP 5", David Sklar, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00569-1
• "Beginning PHP 5 and MYSQL, from Novice to Professional", David Sklar, Apress

Ronald :cool:

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I might also recommend using, when you need help with a specific function, php.net/[FUNCTION NAME], just put your function there (ex. php.net/str_replace will give you information about the str_replace function), you will also get little snippets of code to learn how to use that specific funstion.

[ronverdonk]

Then you might as well point to the (simple) PHP introduction and tutorial in the PHP manual at Getting Started

Ronald :cool: